The Lark and the Farmer

A Lark nested in a field of corn, and was rearing her brood
under cover of the ripening grain. One day, before the young were
fully fledged, the Farmer came to look at the crop, and, finding it
yellowing fast, he said, "I must send round word to my neighbours
to come and help me reap this field." One of the young Larks
overheard him, and was very much frightened, and asked her mother
whether they hadn't better move house at once. "There's no hurry,"
replied she; "a man who looks to his friends for help will take his
time about a thing." In a few days the Farmer came by again, and
saw that the grain was overripe and falling out of the ears upon
the ground. "I must put it off no longer," he said; "This very day
I'll hire the men and set them to work at once." The Lark heard him
and said to her young, "Come, my children, we must be off: he talks
no more of his friends now, but is going to take things in hand
himself."